Maria Ignacia Ossa

María Ignacia Ossa recently graduated with a Master of Public Policy (MPP) degree at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

She’s an economist specializing in public policy with almost three years of consulting experience and three years working in the public sector in Chile. She has worked in research on innovation and entrepreneurship, and implementing public programs such as Challenge prizes and social impact contracts.

Jack Gisby

Jack holds a BA from the University of British Columbia and recently graduated with an MPA (Economic Policy) from the London School of Economics.

Prior to enrolling at LSE, he worked in the financial services sector in Canada – advising clients on the management of foreign currency risk. While studying at the LSE, he’s worked as an analyst at the World Data Lab in Austria – advising private sector clients on market entry/exit strategy – and completed a capstone project at the European Bank of Reconstruction and Development – analysing the ‘digital divide’ within the EBRD’s early transition countries.

Caitlin McIlwain

Before starting her MPA at LSE, Caitlin earned her BS at the University of Washington in Economics and also minored in Applied Mathematics.

Caitlin’s always been interested in the ways in which economics interacts with political science to determine feasible public policy for the betterment of social welfare. After graduating, Caitlin worked for EY for three years doing transfer pricing (economic analysis of international tax law) for large corporations. Upon wanting to interact more with policy and the public sector, Caitlin enrolled at LSE in September 2021.

Benedikt Margraf

Benedikt Margraf is a second-year MPA student at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He holds a BA in International Relations from the University of Groningen.

Before joining the Growth Lab, Benedikt worked at an international consulting firm on public-private sector cooperation and decarbonization strategies. Previously, he worked at the International Trade Centre (UNCTAD/WTO) on economic development and trade promotion in Latin America.